Shari, age 41, glides through the water. Rhythmically dipping her paddle in the sound, confidently balanced on her board, she smiles as her 10-year-old son shouts, “Yea, Mom! You can do it! Look at you go!”
This is the memory Shari wants her son to cherish when she is gone, and this is the message that Jeanine Patten-Coble has embraced: even when things are bad, keep on living and enjoy the good times.
“That’s the thing we worry about the most, leaving our kids behind, wanting to make sure they’re supported and remember us in a good way,” said Patten-Coble, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009.
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